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Description:
In this video, Harrison Barnes provides his recommendations on fixing a few minor things to this already great attorney resume. These are the following:
- Activities and other affiliations are not necessary.
- Dean’s list distinction is not essential to include unless you had been consistent.
- No need to write Legal Experience; instead, you can write “Experience.”
- Avoid using the word et cetera to list anything in your resume.
- Shorten the description under experience.
Transcript:
Okay, so this Bard mission, New York okay. The person's name obviously should be at the top. Was it on the top? Okay. This isn't a roommate of mine. Kelly Cook. Okay. So here we go there. So Kelly Cook, these are made up names by the way.
I guess I'm not going to worry about that. And again, these lines, so this person says South Carolina bar admission pending. So this is going to be a real problem. If this person's trying to get a job In New York or something like that. It doesn't say here where the person is. That I'm not too happy about.
But if the person's trying to get a position with outside of South Carolina, there's no reason to put this on. Typically you put the bar mission at the end and I would put New York bar mission pending if a person's trying to get a job there, but you don't need to put.
Anything that shows the employer that you're not necessarily interested in that particular area is not a good idea. So you want to be very careful about listing that sort of stuff. Okay. So let's see Charlotte school of law, 2017, okay. Activities. Most of these are not necessary to put on there being a member of Phi Delta fire or whatever.
It doesn't really show anything. Like we talked about earlier the BSL is the black law students association. You're welcome to list that on there. The diversity it does help you but it's up to you if you to want to make that an issue. I don't it's up to you.
And when I say issue, I mean that in a positive way but some people want to put that on others talents. That's up to you. I wouldn't put that you were the Dean's list, multiple semesters. There's no reason for that. I love this master of science and taxation. That looks really good for business.
I don't know if Dean's list multiple semesters is necessary also. Typically law firms want to hire people that are they don't, they're not going to care as much. If you start listing that you a Dean's list one place and you weren't in the other, it just draws attention that maybe we weren't on the Dean's list of at Charlotte law school and you have a master's in tax, which is really good.
You're also an enrolled agent, which is awesome. That's for people that don't know about that's a very good thing. A very good A thing to have, and I would actually put that at the end of your resume and and do that again. I don't like this underlying, I don't know, like people do it, but it's fine.
Again, instead of legal experience, you could call it experience or, and then this person is with, and you can see here, some of these issues provided products, laws. Okay. I don't know. Oh, offer up the system since it's. Okay. So this person's been there president K Baker tax group I don't know that people want to see someone that's doing two jobs at the same time.
That's not always a good idea because then it, that just doesn't look good. So you may just want to say I don't know how you want to share the validity. And and you don't want to be informal like this and say, et cetera that just that, I wouldn't do that. So this needs to be shortened This is a tax attorney here. So this is great. Dunno, Collins calling yourself the president of it is a good idea. I would just say, just to say that people, the problem, by the way, when someone, and I see this all the time, when I'm hiring people, if someone has like a, if someone's a freelance, like when I hire writers, like if someone's also a freelance, I know that they're going to have other work to do during the day.
When I'm trying to give them work. And I know that they're probably not going to be dedicated to my project. So the person's not dedicated to my project. That concerns me anytime I've hired someone, that's been a solo practitioner, they've almost always continued doing their solo practitioner work on the side, and that hurts the employer.
So you need to be very careful about how. This is approached and you want to make sure that you're very careful with it. There is nothing wrong with having graduated from law school in 2017 and having your own practice doing all this that's actually awesome. People, there's nothing wrong with that at all that you've learned on your own and law firms hire people like that.
Just like I told you about the girl that had a $20 million. Practice doing immigration and she's never been trained in a law firm. And and I know lots of people that have had their own practice and tax and immigration that never worked in a law firm self-trained and develop books of business and managed to get into major us law firms.
And you don't need all that information. This particular thing here needs to be shortened. I don't know how you're going to do it, but. This here I wouldn't list desk because this is just a volunteer legal assistant for three months. And it's unrelated to what you're doing with a tax, everything about this resumes tax and and then this is great.
This revenue agent stuff is awesome. I love it. And this is very strong and then this Deloitte tax is strong. And yeah, and all this stuff is great. So I don't know the special skills, I don't think you need those which are, Alexis nexus and stuff. I would take that off. I would take I might leave the national association of broad agents on there.
And and then, maybe a couple of things about yourself that make you interested. I like the person's webinar thing that we saw that, like they said, they like to run three miles a day or whatever, and or half marathons and also that they enjoyed other stuff.
So this is a very good resume for tax I like it. And think the resume seems to read more like someone that might like working in the government, but if this person wants a job at a law firm they definitely can get it. And I certainly would have no problem working with this person.
If this stuff was cleaned up to some extent anytime you have a job that's fairly short, this is one year that's. Okay. And all this stuff was good. So I like that. I think this is a good resume. So I'm going to take another quick break since it's we're on the second hour here, if people want and they stick around, I'll just keep talking about all this stuff I'm happy to, but I would like to At least answer all the resume questions that everyone has had so far since this has been a long presentation.
And then I'm happy to come back and keep working on these resumes. There's just a lot of stuff here. And again, I would probably try to shorten most of this stuff here, this particular resume revenue, special agent, and then maybe come up with some things here to do it, but this resume can be one page great resume.
Just needs a few things fixed.
